[Integrityrocks]

If the legislature passes a budget, then the legislators should have to take the political fall out for it. The president is not congress and I applaud him from not playing the "dictator" role with his veto pen like most presidents. On the other hand, unlike dollars and cents that can be manipulated up and down by all sorts of ongoing votes and issues, KILLING INNOCENT LIFE cannot be undone. Good choice of veto power.

[DustyMoment]

If the legislature passes a budget, then the legislators should have to take the political fall out for it.

First of all, the legislature is a state body, not Congress. Expecting Congress to police itself is like turning the asylum over to the inmates. Our system is predicated on a system of checks and balances in which the Congress presents a bill and the president has the option of signing it or vetoing it. Secondly, my palpable anger at Bush for finally exercising his veto power isn't necessarily directed at this bill (he always opposed stem cell research), but it is that he has signed an untold number of crappy bills and horribly bloated budgets in the past 5 years that deserved his veto and he has taken this long to learn how to spell the word.

And, for your edification, stem cell research has been underway for many years. This bill is directed toward embryonic stem cell research which, to date (depending on the studies you believe), has not yielded any useful medical improvements.